Jug

Title: Jug
Inventory Number: A0410
Date Acquired: 1988
Source: Rex Toomey Gift
Provenance: Turkey
Description: Globular upper body, tapering and curving in to flaring flat base; tall cylindrical neck w rolled lip just below which thick horizontal rib; ridged strap handle fr max D to lower neck. One side of lower body mashed in before firing. Dipped neck down in red wash which coated ca 3/4 of vessel & in one place dripped to base.
State of Preservation: Edge of base badly chipped.
Height: 23.0 cm
Max Diameter: 13.2 cm
Rim Diameter: 4.28 cm
Base Diameter: 7.77 cm
Width: 2.25 cm
Color: Clay body 2.5YR 6/8 (light red). wash 2.5YR 5/8 (red).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay